I've heard his approach mentioned before, and it's as stupid now as it was then. Continually attacking someone who wants peace achieves nothing. Especially if the person or group has the the chance to influence those who would act as blindly and unthinkingly as our warmongering friend.
Attacking someone who doesn't want to be your is a pretty damn good way of making them into another enemy.
I'd rather gain allies on the road to peace, than pave it with the blood of innocent civilians.
Eon is a trilogy??? I never knew that. My father brought the first book home for me after going on a business trip. I was ten, and it was daunting to see a book that big plunked down in front of me. But I made it through it, and after having just read Blade Runner (the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep retitled to match the movie) as well, I was sucked into reading Sci-Fi from my previous obsession with mythology.
Looks like I'm going to have to go out and read it all over again:) Darn. Hehe.
Re:is this a repeat? anyone remember?
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I remember it too, but maybe he was using the CoCo 1 or II?
I'm trying to remember all the torture scenes in movies and that one seems to evade me... damn.
I liked how they beat Sean Penn's character around with the phone book in 'Falcon and the Snowman'. Best use of 'Reach out and touch someone' I ever saw. The guy he was playing was such a jackass.
I read it:) But that's why I mentioned the media blowing it out of proportion quickly enough. Just like West Nile Virus... Kills 3 people in North America and it's on the front page of every newspaper. Never mind that it's rare, not as fatal as a lot of other contagions, etc.
Personally I like the idea of having a cell phone or a PDA that would let me check my messages, and then hold it up to my eye to view the attached screenshots or presentation someone sent me.
Heh, maybe we need to put warning stickers on consumers as well. If the person fails a few basic tests, they get a sticker that says "Warning, this consumer is extremely stupid. Do not sell any sharp, hard, pointy, hot, cold or easily swallowed items to this individual."
or maybe "Warning, this individual litigates over own stupidity. Symptoms include rash of complaints, with persistent ambulance chasers."
Now we'll not only hear about cell phones causing brain cancer, now the press will be warning us that we could put our eyes out.
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Coupled with the fact that there are quite a number of CS graduates out there who can't even install their own Development software (I know, I had to do it for a whole gaggle of them, and my CS graduate roommate was computer illiterate as well), it's no wonder that people are antsy about picking them up when there's already enough talented people out there waiting to be picked up.
Not to say that you're not talented or know your stuff, but when a profession becomes an "educational fad" the market gets diluted with wanna-bes who dilute the market.
Safer to be a funeral director these days. At least business is going to be booming there for at least one more generation.
Failed lawsuits? They have the money and the lawyers to flog that horse until they find a judge who identifies with them. It's not about right, it's about might.
Yeah, I don't even read the Register any more... The only time I end up there is to follow links to articles which usually end up being refuted by someone mentioned in them. Heh.
You have to wonder how much relevant information is lost before a story makes it to press these days. Partial quotes, reassembled sentences, poor fact checking. This is meant to address the media in general, not this article specifically.
We need a newspaper/website that quotes people word for word rather than just the highlights, and always sends two reporters to cover a job separately. Not that it will ever happen but I bet we'd have a considerably different view of world events if it happened.
There are quite a few people in offices who use annoying things like the stationary feature of outlook which generate HTML messages.
If you have to be ready to accept email from any one of your clients or companies you deal with, filtering out the VPs home email (which you didn't add to your exclusion filter) just because he likes a puce background might get you canned.
Ugh. Adbusters gets left in the washroom at work so of course it gets read here, but while some of the points they make are valid they're no less hypocritical than anyone else. The magazine is all flash and no bang, berating anything and everything in the media while using the same tactics to say "Hey, everyone, look at me reading this pretty flash magazine! I'm cool cuz I'm CULTURE JAMMING!" An example would be directions on how to protest at stores by dropping stink bombs in them. That's not a political statement, that's being an asshole.
Not intended as a troll or a direct attack on previous poster. Just sick of adbusters holier than thou approach. (One plus though is that they DO print letters which put them down for those exact same reasons)
The politicians can't get enough Hentai Dating Simulation games. Never underestimate the power of a school girl uniform and a 20 foot long penis-tentacle.
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OK, where's the lineup to punch this guy?
I've heard his approach mentioned before, and it's as stupid now as it was then. Continually attacking someone who wants peace achieves nothing. Especially if the person or group has the the chance to influence those who would act as blindly and unthinkingly as our warmongering friend.
Attacking someone who doesn't want to be your is a pretty damn good way of making them into another enemy.
I'd rather gain allies on the road to peace, than pave it with the blood of innocent civilians.
Eon is a trilogy??? I never knew that. My father brought the first book home for me after going on a business trip. I was ten, and it was daunting to see a book that big plunked down in front of me. But I made it through it, and after having just read Blade Runner (the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep retitled to match the movie) as well, I was sucked into reading Sci-Fi from my previous obsession with mythology.
:) Darn. Hehe.
Looks like I'm going to have to go out and read it all over again
I remember it too, but maybe he was using the CoCo 1 or II?
Well, that would make it a hell of a lot more expensive for those book burning religious zealouts.
Now I know why God needs all that money they ask for on TV.
Hmmm, it was... oh wait, I offered that guy a bagel after I hooked his genitals up to the crank phone in my field pack. So it wasn't that.
Was it a Monty Python skit? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! I never did see that one in completion.
I'm trying to remember all the torture scenes in movies and that one seems to evade me... damn.
I liked how they beat Sean Penn's character around with the phone book in 'Falcon and the Snowman'. Best use of 'Reach out and touch someone' I ever saw. The guy he was playing was such a jackass.
Do you remember that the person got coffee at a drive thru window and put it between their legs?
Tip: Don't drink coffee and drive. You might think your Mario Andretti, but there's already enough distracted dummies on the road.
Tip2: Don't put hot water between your legs.
I read it :) But that's why I mentioned the media blowing it out of proportion quickly enough. Just like West Nile Virus... Kills 3 people in North America and it's on the front page of every newspaper. Never mind that it's rare, not as fatal as a lot of other contagions, etc.
:)
Personally I like the idea of having a cell phone or a PDA that would let me check my messages, and then hold it up to my eye to view the attached screenshots or presentation someone sent me.
Just not while I'm coming home at rush hour.
Heh, maybe we need to put warning stickers on consumers as well. If the person fails a few basic tests, they get a sticker that says "Warning, this consumer is extremely stupid. Do not sell any sharp, hard, pointy, hot, cold or easily swallowed items to this individual."
or maybe "Warning, this individual litigates over own stupidity. Symptoms include rash of complaints, with persistent ambulance chasers."
Now we'll not only hear about cell phones causing brain cancer, now the press will be warning us that we could put our eyes out.
Coupled with the fact that there are quite a number of CS graduates out there who can't even install their own Development software (I know, I had to do it for a whole gaggle of them, and my CS graduate roommate was computer illiterate as well), it's no wonder that people are antsy about picking them up when there's already enough talented people out there waiting to be picked up.
Not to say that you're not talented or know your stuff, but when a profession becomes an "educational fad" the market gets diluted with wanna-bes who dilute the market.
Safer to be a funeral director these days. At least business is going to be booming there for at least one more generation.
Failed lawsuits? They have the money and the lawyers to flog that horse until they find a judge who identifies with them. It's not about right, it's about might.
Yeah, I don't even read the Register any more... The only time I end up there is to follow links to articles which usually end up being refuted by someone mentioned in them. Heh.
Wow, this is turning into a ping-pong match.
You have to wonder how much relevant information is lost before a story makes it to press these days. Partial quotes, reassembled sentences, poor fact checking. This is meant to address the media in general, not this article specifically.
We need a newspaper/website that quotes people word for word rather than just the highlights, and always sends two reporters to cover a job separately. Not that it will ever happen but I bet we'd have a considerably different view of world events if it happened.
But how do you put it on your finger, does it hide your slashdot surfing from your department head? :)
Heh, try telling that to Taiwan ;)
what happens when one of the spammers spoofs YOUR email address? :)
Ouch.
There are quite a few people in offices who use annoying things like the stationary feature of outlook which generate HTML messages.
:)
If you have to be ready to accept email from any one of your clients or companies you deal with, filtering out the VPs home email (which you didn't add to your exclusion filter) just because he likes a puce background might get you canned.
NoHTML sounds like a good dll to me
Ugh. Adbusters gets left in the washroom at work so of course it gets read here, but while some of the points they make are valid they're no less hypocritical than anyone else. The magazine is all flash and no bang, berating anything and everything in the media while using the same tactics to say "Hey, everyone, look at me reading this pretty flash magazine! I'm cool cuz I'm CULTURE JAMMING!" An example would be directions on how to protest at stores by dropping stink bombs in them. That's not a political statement, that's being an asshole.
Not intended as a troll or a direct attack on previous poster. Just sick of adbusters holier than thou approach. (One plus though is that they DO print letters which put them down for those exact same reasons)
...we know the real reason behind it.
The politicians can't get enough Hentai Dating Simulation games. Never underestimate the power of a school girl uniform and a 20 foot long penis-tentacle.
How about adding the option to have google understand what I *mean* to search for, not what I tell it to search for.
Oh, and the ability to find one non-fake Britney porn pic.
*chuckle* I tried to avoid that visual image :)
I'd be awful nervous using the bathroom with an electrical appliance cradled on my lap.
Agreed. Somestimes a post needs to show two ratings, "funny AND insightful".
See boys and girls? When the head moves between here and here, that's my porn collection.
:)
When everything stops moving and starts to smoke thats Windows 98.
When everything stops moving and nothing happens that's a Redhat user trying to install FreeBSD